Maker Space & Entrepreneur Incubator

Dr. Tod Colegrove & Tara RadnieckiUniversity of Nevada, Reno

Presented March 8, 2016Computers in Libraries ConferenceWashington, DC

About the University of Nevada, Reno:

A land-grant state university, established: 1874

Students: 20,003 – 16,837 undergraduates (Spring 2015)

Academic & Research Faculty: 913

Full-time faculty holding highest degrees in their fields: 93 %

Degrees offered: 145+, a comprehensive selection of degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level.

Accredited by: Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (since 1938), plus 20 professionally accredited programs.

University of Nevada, Reno, website “History, Stats, and Highlights”. Retrieved March, 2016F from http://www.unr.edu/

Photo by Nick Crowl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstl_unr/

How to go from

TO

How to go from

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/laser-engraving/

TO

http://handsupsdontshoot.tumblr.com/post/122207736121/hands-up-dont-shoot-havana-cuba-51515

How to go from

• Clicking “Download”• Copy & Pasting

• Developing programming skills

• Developing hardware skills• Developing 3D modeling

skills• Developing design skills• Developing

tactile/engineering skills• Addressing IP concerns• Starting a business

TO

New literacies• Computational• Programming: Leap, Google Glass, Apple Watch, Oculus

Rift, Arduino, Raspberry Pi• Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi

• Design• Photoshop/Illustrator: Laser Cutter, Vinyl Cutter• Solidworks/OnShape: 3D modeling/printing

• Tool/Construction/Engineering• Soldering, Sewing, Reverse Engineering

Formal teaching• Workshops• Led by librarians, expert staff, and outside community

experts

• In-class Lessons• Led by librarians and expert staff• Art Classes

• Laser Cutting• Vinyl Cutting• Photoshop

• Non-ME Engineering Courses• Introduction to 3D Modeling & Scanning

Workshops

Learning Aids• Lynda.com• Online Developer Communities• Books• How To Program Lego Mindstorms, etc

• Company-developed• Sparkfun Inventor kit

Developer Communities

Consultations

Consultation

Intellectual Property

Never before created prototypes

New student led businesses

Booming local start-up community

Makerspace = Kitchen @ the House Party

Librarians are natural connectors.

Questions?

Makerspace as Start-up Incubator• They also share strategic vision for the future on the development of the makerspace as incubator for young entrepreneurs• Focus on how we are actively supporting innovation & entrepreneurship

• Supporting new literacies• p-o-n• consultations

• Other Presentation• workshops• Add iWatch to programmable so

• Patents & IP• New Class• Patents for Business & Engineering Students

• Community Connections• InNevation Center• EDAWN• Angel investors

• Examples• Kickstarters• New Businesses• Sontag

• Making it interdisciplinary? Or letting it?• Engineering a natural, but first requested & used by Chem/Math/Physics• Art classes/Ptofessors• History• Athletics• Lead Producers, Reno Mini Maker Faire

Cannot be all things to all people…

But we can utilize our expertise in new ways.